Digital Camera Terms To Know
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Digital Camera Terms To Know
It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what
some of the more common terms mean.
Below you will find many of these common terms defined..
Automatic Mode — A setting that sets the focus, exposure and
white-balance automatically.
Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a series of pictures taken one
after another at quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter
button.
Compression — The process of compacting digital data, images and text
by deleting selected information.
Digital Zoom — Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.
JPEG — The predominant format used for image compression in digital
cameras.
Lag Time — The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and
when the camera actually captures the image
LCD — (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on a digital camera
for viewing images.
Lens — A circular and transparent glass or plastic piece that has the
function of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture
the image.
Megabyte — (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of
information in a file, or how much information can be contained on a
Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.
Pixels — Tiny units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also
measure digital resolution. One million pixels adds up to one
mega-pixel.
RGB — Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all
other colors.
Resolution — Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to
create the image, which determines the amount of detail a camera can
capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can register
and the larger the picture can be printed.
Storage Card — The removable storage device which holds images taken
with the camera, comparable to film, but much smaller. Also called a
digital camera memory card...
Viewfinder — The optical "window" to look through to compose the scene.
White Balance — White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for
the type of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or
lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human
eye.
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